A well-dressed young woman holding a fan and wearing a large feather in her hair stands with her back towards a mirror set on a stand as she looks back over her shoulder at her reflection. She wears a small, satisfied smile on her face
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published 20th November 1797 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Complacence, Mirrors, and Young adults
"Portrait of an unidentified woman, previously known as the Countess of Desmond; an elderly woman shown bust-length directed to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a heavy, dark veil like that of a nun, a dark cloak tied with lacing at the thr...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 1st Nov. 1797 by I. Herbert
Subject (Name):
Desmond, Catherine, Countess, approximately 1504-1604,
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750-1831, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 September 1797]
Call Number:
Drawer 724 803B no. 29
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Poins and Hal, disguised, fall on Falstaff and company in a thick woodland with a large, broken gnarled tree on the left; they tie them up and rob them of the spoils they have just taken from travellers that passed that way earlier.'--British Museum ...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Septr. 29, 1797, by J. & J. Boydell, at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall & No. 90, Cheapside
Volume 4, opposite page 426. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Francis Grose; whole length, standing, facing the front, looking to the left, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a cane."--British Museum online catalogue
